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In response to earlier initial plans Maaike Vellinga and Rob Voerman have developed an alternative master plan for city blocks: the Rhine flood plain area between the two bridges. This plan is made on their own initiative and is separate from the plans of the municipality of Arnhem.

The plan may give more allure in this area. On the banks of the Rhine appears opposite the Centre of Arnhem a hotel/annex restaurant. A controversial building, half in the water, which should be given the same allure as Hotel New York in Rotterdam. A ferry will connect the hotel and the rest of the area with the town.

The plan includes a new modern art museum, an underground car park, a multiplex cinema (Pathe in the slope of the Nelson Mandela bridge. All these functions are United in a controversial and futuristic complex, that extend the value of this bridge head.